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Elon Musk Bringing Back DOGE Staffer Who Shared Racist Posts Online
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... On Friday, Elon Musk announced that he will bring back Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff member who resigned from a Treasury Department position after his controversial tweets promoting racism and eugenics were exposed by the Wall Street Journal.
Musk made this announcement on his social media platform, X, following Vice President JD Vance's urging, and later on Friday, President Donald Trump's endorsement of the rehiring at a news conference.
"He will be brought back," Musk, the head of DOGE, wrote on X in response to Vance's post. ...
Secrecy is becoming a defining trait of Elon Musk's DOGE
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... DOGE officials have been active at USAID, Veterans Affairs, Treasury and elsewhere, but little is publicly known about their work.
On Monday, a team at IBM that is contracted to manage human resources data for more than 500,000 federal employees received an unusual request to provide "read-only" access for the HR records for all 14,000 employees of the General Services Administration, according to a source familiar with the contract.
The email was from IBM's regular contact at the GSA, the agency that manages federal property. But the request was odd since the agency already had "read and write" access to the data.
The request and the questions it raised were one example of the suspicion and speculation in Washington as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk conduct an unprecedented effort to shrink the federal workforce and slash federal programs that is shrouded in secrecy.
Democrats have criticized Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency for failing to disclose the names of its staff members, its criteria for laying off certain government workers and its rationale for cutting programs. Which government data they are accessing remains not fully known.
As of Wednesday, NBC News has confirmed that DOGE officials have been active at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees health care for more than 139 million people; the U.S. Agency for International Development; the Department of Veterans Affairs; and the U.S. Treasury.
A White House spokesperson did not directly answer a question about whether DOGE requested the human resources records of the 14,000 GSA employees from IBM. ...
Another aspect ...
As anyone who has a clue about the economy will tell you ...
The Stock Market and the Economy Are Not the Same: A Guide to Understanding the Difference
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... When we think of financial health, a few things might come to mind. We may think of our own financial status, our investments, the Dow Jones Industrial Average performance, the stock market as a whole, the economy, the country's employment status and so on. While some aspects may be interrelated on some level, they are not all one and the same, nor do they all indicate the status of one another.
The various ways we can characterize financial well-being speaks to why so many people think of the stock market and the economy's health as a gauge for each other. However, the stock market does not define economic health as a whole. ...
@#13 ... How so? My understanding is, Civil rights implies ignoring immutable traits, DEI implies only looking at immutable traits. ...
Yeah, but the one aspect your current alias' comment seems to omit is that DEI was put into place because of the exact issue your current alias seems to have with it, i.e., looking at immutable traits.
Stated differently ...
Trump Official Said 'Competent White Men Must Be in Charge'
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@#21 ... Now that is funny as the only hate I see being spewed on a continual basis over the years comes from the left. ...
Really?
'So evil' and 'dangerous': Trump doubles down on calling Democrats 'enemies from within'
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What examples you got?
@#4 ... The orange rapist's archivists reside in Beijing, Moscow and Riyadh. ...
Possibly. There still seems to be some missing classified documents, some of the folders found at Mar-a-Lago were empty.
Who knows where the contents of those folders not reside.
wThis was after Pres Trump had said that everything was returned.
Kudos to Ms Shogan for putting the American people, and the Constitution, first and foremost with her actions.